Posted on 10/04/2024 2:18:54 PM PDT by DFG
Nearly 50,000 dockworkers launched a strike this week at ports from Maine to Texas — but, in a bizarre quirk that has resulted from massive concessions to the union over the decades, the affected ports only employ 25,000.
There’s a massive gulf in the numbers between those who show up for work and total membership in the powerful International Longshoremen’s Association, which won a deal late Thursday for a 62% wage increase over the next six years.
That’s because half of the dockworkers at the East and Gulf coast ports are allowed to sit at home collecting “container royalties” negotiated decades ago to protect against job losses that result from innovation, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The impact of these no-show jobs at the ports — controlled by ILA’s highly-paid and foul-mouthed president Harold Daggett — were part of an explosive 2019-2020 Waterfront Commission report cited by The Journal’s editorial board on Friday.
That report laid out how the ILA’s iron grip helps some workers at the expense of countless other blue-collar applicants by refusing to hire residents near the ports — and reignited concerns about the mob’s control over US shipping made famous in the classic film “On the Waterfront.”
“The absolute control of the International Longshoremen’s Association, AFL-CIO (ILA) over hiring in the Port for over 60 years has not only led to a lack of diversity and inclusion in waterfront employment, but also to the perpetuation of criminality and corruption,” the Waterfront Commission report found.
It also alleged that nearly 600 union members received more than $147 million in outsized salaries not required by the industry’s collective bargaining agreement — and for hours they don’t have to work at the ports.
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Inflation, man. Inflation.
I imagine that would be a result of 25,000 imported Cartel “Dock Minders” to ensure the child sex and drug trades remain unimpeded.
MSM MATH
There was a supermarket cashiers’ strike when I was in HS and worked as a non-union boxboy. I didn’t cross lines,
either.
Dumb story. Non-union & diff union didn’t cross picket lines either.
Government maffs
Foreign owned multinational corporations vs mob controlled American unions.
It's a close call, I guess I will go with the union since I hate multinational corporations slightly more.
It’s like the jobs report and will be revised down later.
Same way d/s/c vote in elections.
MUSK WILL TEAR THIS APART WHEN HE IS TRUMP’S EFFICIENCY EXPERT.
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Solidarity, I would guess.
“Solidarity, I would guess.”
According to the article, it’s contracted no-shows:
“That’s because half of the dockworkers at the East and Gulf coast ports are allowed to sit at home collecting “container royalties” negotiated decades ago to protect against job losses that result from innovation, ...”
Don’t know if that’s true, but it is reminiscent of the unionized no-show teachers in the NYC school system.
According to the article, the gap is not due to non-union or other union port workers failing to cross picket lines but rather to paid “no-shows” stemming from a contract negotiated many years ago to protect against job losses from containerization.
In San Diego a small grocery chain called Sprouts was under a long term picket by a union, and the union was using low paid non union people as the picketers.
Port costs like tarrifs will result in production moving on shore
How, I wonder?
That’s because half of the dockworkers at the East and Gulf coast ports are allowed to sit at home collecting “container royalties” negotiated decades ago to protect against job losses that result from innovation, according to The Wall Street Journal. The impact of these no-show jobs at the ports — controlled by ILA’s highly-paid and foul-mouthed president Harold Daggett — were part of an explosive 2019-2020 Waterfront Commission report cited by The Journal’s editorial board on Friday.
So I only need to read the article? Cool!
They/Them pronouns?
50K dockhands. Two hands per person, see?
“ Port costs like tarrifs will result in production moving on shore”
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Yep. As I heard a caller say (on the ‘Road Dog Trucking” channel on SiriusXM) “American made products don’t need ports”.
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